{"id":5984,"date":"2016-12-07T10:40:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T15:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/?p=5984"},"modified":"2025-03-20T09:43:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T13:43:26","slug":"convocation-full-circle-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/2016\/convocation-full-circle-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Convocation: A Full-Circle Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Convocation: A Full-Circle Journey\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>A lifelong curiosity about anthropology and business has taken Rodney Nelson around the world and back, through an academic career that culminated at Carleton\u2019s Fall Convocation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Nov. 12, he received a <a href=\"http:\/\/graduate.carleton.ca\/programs\/canadian-studies-phd\/\">PhD in Canadian Studies<\/a> \u2013 his fourth degree from Carleton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gradstudents.carleton.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/RodneyNelson-mediumsize.png\" alt=\"Rodney Nelson head shot\" class=\"wp-image-29577\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI wanted to go to university, but I wasn\u2019t a very good student,\u201d says Nelson. \u201cOttawa U, Queen\u2019s, and Carleton all said no, obviously. But on my third visit to Carleton they said: \u2018Well, you\u2019re being persistent, that\u2019s a good sign. Take a couple of courses and we\u2019ll let you in if you do well.\u2019\u201d Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/gradstudents.carleton.ca\/2016\/convocation-full-circle-journey\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lifelong curiosity about anthropology and business has taken Rodney Nelson around the world and back, through an academic career that culminated at Carleton\u2019s Fall Convocation. On Nov. 12, he received a PhD in Canadian Studies \u2013 his fourth degree from Carleton. \u201cI wanted to go to university, but I wasn\u2019t a very good student,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"rattle-first-nations"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5986,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions\/5986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}